Damon Albarn Update: Gorillaz Album, Blur Documentary, Band With Flea

Gorillaz album features Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, Barry Gibb, and more.

Damon Albarn was recently named "Multi-Tasker of the Decade" by The Guardian (sorry Jack White), and the British star is apparently trying to top his own busy track record over the next ten years.

First, he's got the new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, nearly finished. According to a Guardian interview, it's the "most pop record [he's] ever made" and features guest turns from Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Barry Gibb, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, and the Horrors. (De La Soul are on there too.)

Then there's the previously reported opera he's working on with Watchmen scribe Alan Moore, as well as a new trio with the suddenly ubiquitous Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fela Kuti percussionist Tony Allen (who previously worked with Albarn in the Good, the Bad and the Queen).

There's also a career-encompassing Blur documentary entitled No Distance Left to Run that's out early next year. Based on the trailer (embedded below), Distance looks like one of those life-affirming docs that will leave you reaching for all those Blur classics. It was directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace and hits UK theaters January 19. No word on another Blur album or U.S. reunion dates but it looks like Albarn's 2010 is basically mapped out already.